NewCharlesInCharge
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NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
That resonates with me, I used to buy the media narratives on Trump as well.
“You used to say bad things about Trump” is going to be true for a lot of Trump voters in this election.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Thanks for the pedantry, I was unaware. Looks like they still handle currency counterfeiters as well.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Did Raz Simone actually get arrested for distributing guns that got black boys killed?
He was caught on video distributing AR-15s to random passers-by, but I didn't see those people in the post-killing celebration video.
The distribution itself is a crime in this state, every transfer except gifts or inheritance between family members have to go through an FFL.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Possibilities on the registration bit include:
- He voluntarily registered Republican like mom and dad when he was living in their home, then his politics shifted
- Mom or dad filled out the registration form for him
- He registered Republican so that he could strategically vote for the "worse" candidate in the Republican races
- He was truly a Republican then and truly a Republican yesterday when taking shots on the presumed nominee
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Hope we get some bull moose references from Trump in the coming days.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Kamala's incentive is to ride with Biden so that she will become President after he dies or is incapacitated. She likely knows that her odds are worse if she's at the top of the ticket.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Having trouble finding it now, but I recall an account from a former abortion provider that they'd induce labor after doing something that was supposed to kill the baby, I forget if this was pharmaceutical or surgical. In some instances the baby would come out not dead.
There was a rule that mandated that the hospital provide life-saving care only if the parents wanted it or if the baby was above a certain weight. Part of this doctor's realization that they needed to get out of this line of work involved them fudging the numbers so that the writhing premie would be saved instead of left to die.
I tried getting ChatGPT to assist me and while it couldn't dig this story up, it did find this: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/35725/what-happens-when-babies-survive-abortion-a-doctors-alarming-response
Dr. DeShawn Taylor, who runs an abortion and Ob/Gyn clinic in Phoenix, Ariz. and who was formerly the medical director at Planned Parenthood Arizona, was filmed undercover saying that according to Arizona law "if the fetus comes out with any signs of life" at an abortion clinic, "we're supposed to transport it … to the hospital."
However, when asked on camera, if at her clinic "is there any standard procedure for verifying signs of life?", she didn't answer with a specific procedure, but rather said: "I mean, the key is you need to pay attention to who's in the room, right? Because the thing is the law states that you're not supposed to do any maneuvers after the fact to try to cause demise so it's really tricky."
These folks are aware of popular opinion, and they're competent enough to get through med school. They're not going to advertise that they're trying to work around the laws, you're only going to find evidence through undercover operations and whisteblowers.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
In Washington state we get mailers from the state public health agency to tell us how to raise our babies. They use the term "chestfeeding."
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
I wonder if Hunter remembers Wag the Dog.
It can’t be Albania this time, they’re NATO members.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
I think if Biden were in Kennedy's place when the Joint Chiefs wanted to get belligerent or even use nukes against the commies, there's a very good chance that the nukes would have flown.
What does the man so no to?
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
I remember within days of the story coming out there was a guy who published a Github verifying that the DKIM signatures on the emails matched. Which means either they were legit, or were forged by someone who was able to steal Google's signing keys from five years prior, or who had the nigh impossible computing power to crack those keys.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
Agreed, it seemed like on the CNN panel Axelrod and Van Jones were the only ones flailing like I'd expect if they were actually blindsided. If you're a loyal Democrat I'd expect some grasping at straws, making excuses, and outright denial.
On Kamala's post-debate interviews, the most she'd say is that Biden had a "slow start." I'm guessing she was left out because whoever's running the show knows she can't be the nominee, so they can't let her know the plan and try to position herself.
Everyone else got the memo that if Biden can't hack it they're free to call for him to step down, so they were prepared to see him fail.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
The Democrats mostly did away with party leadership selecting candidates after 1968. At this point the DNC has even defanged superdelegates, they're not allowed to vote on the first ballot. So the leaders only get outsized voting only if the nomination is still contested even at the convention.
They've also painted themselves as the defenders of democracy, that Trump is a would-be dictator who will end democracy in America. Yet it's Trump that won the primaries fair and square, and if the Democrats replace Biden it's them that's ignoring the will of the voters.
NewCharlesInCharge
4mo ago
I haven’t detected any shift in urgency. There’s a nightly show on CCTV where talking heads prattle about Taiwan, but apparently they have been doing this show for thirty years.
The message is still “Taiwan is a part of China,” same as it ever was. I guess there might be a bit more accusations of American meddling, but that may just be reflecting reality and not designed to escalate.
They also don’t have timelines driven by elections, and have no problem waiting until reintegration is a foregone conclusion.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
I suspect that methane leaks are basically not real, and the meme probably driven by some research paper with either shoddy methods or a narrow application.
I happen to have two gas meters on my property. One connects to appliances in our house, the other to a heater for my pool. I use the heater maybe twice a year. During the months it is not used, there is zero movement on the meter.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
I wonder if providers are in paranoid election mode now. In 2020 Facebook had a huge election security effort, maybe other companies are Doing Their Part to Secure The Election.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
Pro-HBD guys like Razib Khan and Stephen Hsu are racist.
This is playing definitional games. "Believes there are measurable differences between races" is a fairly new definition. It will almost always, and probably on purpose, be conflated with "believes blacks should be treated detrimentally purely on account of being black."
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
I dismissed Yudkowsy as having anything useful to add when I listened to him on Brian Chau's podcast and learned that he has zero practical experience with AI.
This is supposed to be the thing you're most passionate about and concerned with, and you never even bothered to tinker around with PyTorch or something like it? IIRC he didn't even understand what Chau was talking about when he said PyTorch.
Imagine someone who makes their life's work opining on video games but they never actually played one, everything they know is based on second-hand knowledge and their own speculation.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
A whole lot of them are dumb enough to make their membership in criminal gangs public in other ways, like social media posts and rap songs.
But we can't even criminalize gang loitering, see Chicago v. Morales. Mere membership is likely going to be a protected First Amendment right to association. Bukele doesn't have this problem.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
It's a strange side effect that whether or not the shooter is killed impacts whether or not their writings are kept private.
If she was alive this material would be discoverable and likely submitted as evidence in the eventual case against her.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
It went all the way up and down with a soft splash landing, even though the thermal protection failed to the point that the aerodynamic control services were melting.
The video of the melting flaps is wild.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
I think it's more like Jews that don't keep the sabbath or eat kosher, it's part of your ancestral identity rather than representing any belief in divine revelation.
Even Sunday mass itself is obligatory, along with a smattering of holy days of obligation. So if you're not giving any weight to that rule, you're unlikely to give any weight to the others. The non-weekly attenders that happen to align with the church are doing so on accident, the church isn't the source of their opinion.
They might go to church for Christmas and Easter. Very few priests would use those as a platform to catechize the cultural Catholics. The most I've seen is gentle nudging, like "Look how hard it was to find parking today, people had to park in the neighhborhood. A lot of you must not be coming every week, and you really should!"
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
The Qing dynasty also saw no need for disruptive innovations.
NewCharlesInCharge
5mo ago
But that would be a very stupid thing to do.
Without the export bans China would have continued to buy instead of build the most advanced process chips for the foreseeable future. We've forced their hand to bet everything on build.
I bought into the “Muslim ban” framing, yes.
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